On History

Who Cares? It really doesn't matter who discovered what. After all wouldn't everything be discovered eventually? Was everything worth discovering? How significant is a discovery that is not presently useful? Should someone be given recognition for an accidental discovery?

"The planet Earth has been photographed by satellites in outer space"
"There is nothing left to be discovered except how to use what has been found.
The people who do this are called inventors."

Honestly, Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone, but who invented the pay phone? No one had intended to find Florida. Ponce deLeon was looking for the Fountain of Youth not a state that serves no use greater than commercial trade, a second rate television series and breeding mosquitoes.

Then there are group discoveries -

take the moon for example, no one discovered it,
but the first man to walk on it was a hero.
Although there is nothing of great importance up there he's still a hero. The reason, probably because he brought a flag up there (U.S. flag that is). Is he a hero in foreign nations? Probably not because it wasn't their flag.

By the way, does anyone remember the second, fifth or tenth person to walk on the moon?
Will anyone remember that small step of the fiftieth astronaut to stroll on that rock in space?

The answer is that it's unlikely or else we wouldn't need plaques and mementos to remind us who they were.

The moral:

If everything on Earth has been found; and you don't have time in your schedule to find what hasn't been found...

Discover yourself, it's much more fulfilling.

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